Signals from Our Futures Past
Mike AmundsenExploring the social and architectural layers of information systems—from card catalogs to autonomous agents.
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Writing is thinking (and grading is, too)
Two recent statements, one from Nature Reviews Bioengineering and another from the Modern Language Association, arrive at the same conclusion from different directions:
Writing is part of thinking and assessing writing is part of teaching....
The cost of always having the answer
A recent paper makes a simple but unsettling claim: AI assistance improves performance in the moment but reduces persistence and weakens independent thinking almost immediately.
In controlled studies across math and reading tasks, particip...
Going Beyond the Hyperlink
For a long time, I have talked about hyperlinks as the defining feature of the web.
They connect documents, enable navigation, and allow users to move from one place to another without knowing the full structure of the system in advance....
The AI Great Leap Forward (a warning)
I came across a piece by Lee Han Chung that offers a rather sobering frame for today’s AI moment: The AI Great Leap Forward
The title is not casual. It points directly to China’s Great Leap Forward of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
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Factories and Frontiers
In 1913, the moving assembly line arrived at Highland Park, Michigan. Ford Motor Company did not invent manufacturing, but it perfected sequence. Every chassis moved forward along a designed path. Each worker performed a defined task. The o...
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